[Genome] Display UCSC tracks with custom tracks

Hiram Clawson hiram at soe.ucsc.edu
Mon Jan 21 10:48:42 PST 2008


Good Morning Carles:

You do not describe what type of behavior you are encountering.
Can you please provide the actual URL to your data set, privately to
me only if that is a consideration.

You can find many examples of how to include a reference to
a custom track on our WEB page:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/customTracks/custTracks.html

--Hiram

Carles Fenollosa wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've spent the whole afternoon trying to figure out how to add UCSC's  
> own tracks with my custom track file. Say I have a .txt file  
> cointaining some tracks, and I'd also like to show the Gene track.  
> I've trying to build up an URL like this:
> 
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?org=human&position=chr21&hgt.customText=http://myserver.com/myfile.txt&knownGene=dense
> 
> but it doesn't work. Is it the right way to go, or am I doing  
> something wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Carles


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